Syracuse post game thread

[temery]

Great game

 

[SportsFan88]

Coaching malpractice, playing not to lose instead of playing to win

 

[cellocgg]

Even though that loss was a bit of a heartbreaker, game was an instant classic. I can never be too upset about endings like this, absolute cinema

 

[CTBasketball]

Coaching malpractice, playing not to lose instead of playing to win

Joey missed a lot of throws today that he usually makes. Odd.

 

[Dove]

Ahhh, well. So close.

 

[Tdaley]

Can anyone catch the ball other than Bell?

 

[uconndogs]

Kids played a great game.

 

[How Sway?!]

Honestly impressive we lost that game. That was some scared coaching right there. I also hope we stop babying Fagnano. He is too inconsistent.

 

[Skies2018]

Had em in the first half. Played like it was in the bag the second. Cant let off the gas.

 

[Devland]

offense disappeared in the second half

 

[Scoe]

It’s an unacceptable loss and yes I said this going in. You had a chance to put it in your own hands. Guys didn’t step up when they had to.

 

[SportsFan88]

Even though that loss was a bit of a heartbreaker, game was an instant classic. I can never be too upset about endings like this, absolute cinema

Bit of a heartbreaker? Huge heartbreaker

 

[Stinger92860]

Started playing not to lose in q4, thats on the calls being made

 

[BugsyCT]

What a shame. D played lights out for 55 minutes, then it all fell apart. Just a brutal loss.

Gotta put it behind them and get ready for Delaware next week.

 

[gsmooth]

that was a gut punch. UConn just needed to make the 1-2 plays to close this out and they couldn't.

1) Fagnano missing the wide open TE on the first drive
2) Mills dropping the INT at the end of the first half
3) Honig dropping that ball where he would have had a 15 yard gain and chew up at least 3 more minutes
4) 4th and 4 and giving up a big play 50 yard plus TD pass. Even a first down would have forced Syracuse to use more clock, probably at least 2 minutes.

Any one of these plays goes UConn's way they win. But players have to make the basic plays and know how to win. It sounds cliche, but there is truth behind it.

 

[SportsFan88]

Joey missed a lot of throws today that he usually makes. Odd.

Honig had a big drop that woulda been a huge play and prolly puts the game out of reach

 

[TRest]

We are not that good. Too bad, needed a scalp like this.

 

[uconnbaseball]

We’d be great with a better QB. Still like the rest of our offense. D was good but got tired. Conservative friggin playcalling…

 

[KryHavok]

@temery I still can't post in the game chat for some reason.

I was glad to see Neider get a TD pass, doing Milford proud!!

That said, the defense blew the game. Had a lead and couldn't hang on for the final 6 min. A win would've been frellin' fantastic, but as usual the all cretins crew refs gotta go blind against our opponents. Dammit, we were so close to 2-0.

 

[k-walk]

Great way to lose all those fans we were about to gain for this season

 

[gsmooth]

What a shame. D played lights out for 55 minutes, then it all fell apart. Just a brutal loss.

Gotta put it behind them and get ready for Delaware next week.

Correct. The players cannot, let this carry over to next week.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Even though that loss was a bit of a heartbreaker, game was an instant classic. I can never be too upset about endings like this, absolute cinema

I can't appreciate a 'good game" when im this invested in the team that loses. If my wife fell in love with another guy I wouldnt say "okay, hes a pretty good dude"

 

[BugsyCT]

Even though that loss was a bit of a heartbreaker, game was an instant classic. I can never be too upset about endings like this, absolute cinema

So was the 6 OT loss at MSG, but I never wanted to go back and watch it again.

 

[Exit 4]

Frustrating to turtle that to a loss. They played great- it wasn’t the offensive explosion we expected…. D showed something. Strutz as punter was a star. And Bell too.

 

[superjohn]

95% chance to win and they played not to lose. Probably the worst loss I can remember considering this program desperately needs to win these games.

They should've won that game something like 24-6.

 

[metsfan2323]

Gotta put it behind them and get ready for Delaware next week.

That is key, don't let it effect next week. Shake it off and move on, the season is young.

 

[ScottVib]

Honestly impressive we lost that game. That was some scared coaching right there. I also hope we stop babying Fagnano. He is too inconsistent.

If he's inconsistent... why would you want to "turn him loose"

 

[Scoe]

Yes it was an entertaining game but participation trophies against P4 teams isnt good enough anymore my standards are higher then most fans.

 

[BlueandOG]

Overall, great game. We looked very good at times, and the drive for the final field goal was excellent (Bell is amazing). The two issues I saw were 1) we stopped playing to win when we thought we had it in the bag. Run run run punt is never going to win a game. The OC really really really messed up, and 2) Joe and the receivers were not in sync a lot of the time. Joe had some bad throws, and there were a few easy drops.

Anyway, my heart is broken but my faith in the future is strong. We will beat at least one of the ACC teams this year.

 

[UCTitleTown]

We need to start beating decent teams. This was the year and we couldn't get it done.